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Hooo boy. I learned to write by reading and writing a huge amount and then being trained by the Army at the Defense Information School. And the standards we learned are probably not the best standards for general use. The best advice I ever got was to edit and edit and edit and then delete most of what I wrote and edit that. What I write here is edited numerous times, both before and after I hit enter the first time, and even then it isn't nearly good enough to publish because I write in an extremely relaxed manner here, using a very different voice than I use professionally. As we keep going back to: context affects what you say and how you say it.
>“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.”
The book I use to guide my writing is the AP style guide. https://www.amazon.com/Associated-Press-Stylebook-2017-Briefing/dp/0465093043/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1503189006&sr=8-1&keywords=Ap+style+guide
It has changed drastically since I first learned how to write, and so my writing is a mix of outdated style and prose, and a bit of modern style.
Today, when I am looking rules up I either use the Style Guide, or I go here: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/572/01/